Positive marital illusions: self-enhancement or relationship enhancement?
Article Abstract:
Positive marital illusions show stronger association with quality of relationship than with optimism, pessimism, or social desirability. Positive marital illusions are measured by Idealistic Distortion Scale and a measure of the future of the marriage. The positive illusion about the future of marriage is evident as the expected chances of divorce and estrangement are much less than the actual occurrence. Optimism and pessimism fail to show any relation to future of marriage when marriage satisfaction is controlled.
Publication Name: Journal of Family Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0893-3200
Year: 1996
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Life task appraisals, spouse involvement in strategies, and daily affect among short- and long-term married couples
Article Abstract:
The predictors and consequences of spouses' involvement in each others' strategies were examined for pursuing life tasks. Results indicated that interdependence in life task appraisals prospectively predicted greater spouse involvement, which was also associated with more positive affect for that day.
Publication Name: Journal of Family Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0893-3200
Year: 2006
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Positive illusions about marriage among married and single individuals
Article Abstract:
Issues relating to the tendency to describe one's marriage in unrealistic terms are studied. The proposal that positive illusions of marriage are a function of marital duration and satisfaction is considered amd then dismissed.
Publication Name: Journal of Family Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0893-3200
Year: 2001
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Progressive dysarthria: structural and functional brain correlations. Alzheimer's disease: from gene to pathology
- Abstracts: Interrogative suggestibility in an adolescent forensic population. Forensic assessment of juvenile delinquents: prevalence of psychopathology and decision-making at court in the Netherlands
- Abstracts: Mental capacity constraints and the development of moral reasoning
- Abstracts: A prospective study of the influence of eating-disordered mothers on their children. Alcohol abuse and dysfunctional eating in adolescent girls: the influence of individual differences in sensitivity to reward punishment
- Abstracts: Predictors of cognitive test patterns in autism families. Siblings, parents, and partners: Family relationships within a longitudinal community study